Quotes About Justification

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

But to be God—which of course meant to have been God all along—he had to justify every event in his past, define every action in terms that made it consistent with godhood…there could no longer be any incidents that were too uncomfortable to remember.

Six days into the debriefing, Piro questioned Saddam intensely and repeatedly about the elusive Iraqi chemical and biological arsenal that was President Bush's justification for the American invasion. Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been a long-running bluff, a deception intended to keep the Iranians, the Israelis, and the Americans at bay.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

To justify their avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive scientific studies," that black is white.